Roderick Reilly
2009-02-06 13:37:03
Phelps had a DUI at 19, so he’s not a stranger to these kinds of activities.
He’s an athletic superstar because he turned his energy to a sport where getting multiple medals is possible by design, and where it is physiologically and statistically possible to set multiple world records. He’s most definetely a great athlete, but his accomplishments are overblown in context. The point is we hype people way past their actual worth both when they catch our imagination (as athletes or performers), or when they become CEOs of companies they didn’t found nor had they invented anything or started a new industry. We encourage this as asociety, and deserve to have such overrated jerks betray our good faith and goodwill.
